Gyulai3 I will now know,—to be at least by hand.— Much illness in our circle still (a poor sister-in-law dangerously situated4 in Annandale); my Wife herself beginning to get out, tho’ still very weakly.

2. Williams & Norgate wrote: “Adelung Staatsgesch. 8 vols will be here next week.” TC added: “Swift, then!” “Vol. I of the Lebens
und Regier. Gesch Friedrichs II [Seyfart] has also been ordered, but they have not yet found the Namen-Verzeichniss [name
index].” TC added: “Does this mean that ‘vol I' has actually been got hold of? If so, let it be sent for instantly! The Namen-Verzeichniss (of whh I already have a borrowed copy) can wait to any length of leisure. ‘vol I' at once!” See above. It is not clear what the “Namen-Verzeichniss” refers to as, according to TC's notes (HCC and Works 14:1267), Seyfart's book had no index. For Adelung and Seyfart, see TC to JN, 28 Feb.

3. Count Franz Gyulai (1798–1868), Austrian gen. When the Austrians discovered in 1858 that Napoleon III and Cavour had met to discuss the unification of Italy, Gyulai was sent to invade Piedmont. The Piedmontese,
supported by the French, forced the Austrians to retire after the battle of Magenta, 4 June 1859.

4. Isabella Carlyle d. 1 June; her death certificate noted that she had suffered from diarrhea for ten weeks; TC told Alexander Carlyle that “her complaint
was of the liver and bowels”; see TC to AC, 7 Oct.